Attention duration and quality determine how much differentiation one perceives
Evidence
This type of embarrassing discovery, in which something you thought was one thing is actually two things, and each of those two things is actually ten things, seems like a simple function of the duration and quality of one’s attention. With effort, we can become attuned to things, able to pick up and then hopefully differentiate finer and finer frequencies each time. — Jenny Odell, How to Do Nothing, 65
Categorization
- XREF: This is a clean statement of attention as world-constitution; ties to Deep Listening’s gradient between vast sonic totality and targeted focus. — connects to: Sustained attention differentiates a perceptual blur into discrete meaningful units — Jenny Odell, How to Do Nothing: Resisting the…, 63; Attention duration and quality expand perceptual granularity; Aesthetic experience succeeds or fails on attentional quality, not object traits — Yves Citton, The Ecology of Attention, 431 (+1 more)
- yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Sustained attention differentiates a perceptual blur into discrete meaningful units — Jenny Odell, How to Do Nothing: Resisting the…, 63; Attention duration and quality expand perceptual granularity; Aesthetic experience succeeds or fails on attentional quality, not object traits — Yves Citton, The Ecology of Attention, 431 (+1 more)